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1 day ago · Interior. The Palace of Westminster contains over 1,100 rooms, 100 staircases and 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) of passageways, which are spread over four floors. The ground floor is occupied by offices, dining rooms and bars; the first, or principal, floor houses the main rooms of the palace, including the debating chambers, the lobbies and the libraries.
- Palace of Whitehall
Inigo Jones's plan, dated 1638, for a new palace at...
- Elizabeth Tower
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great...
- Palace of Whitehall
1 day ago · According to official fact sheets, the Empire State Building weighs 365,000 short tons (331,122 t) and has an internal volume of 37 million cubic feet (1,000,000 m 3 ). [53] The interior required 1,172 miles (1,886 km) of elevator cable and 2 million feet (609,600 m) of electrical wires. [78]
- March 17, 1930
- 102
- 2,248,355 sq ft (208,879 m²)
- 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10118
5 days ago · The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. It is located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
- September 18, 1793
- 5
- 16.5 acres (67,000 m²)
1 day ago · The main headquarters was expanded slightly from 1978 to 1981, including the construction of a new cafeteria and a slight expansion of the Conference Building. [96] [97] The UN staff continued to grow, and by 1969, the organization had 3,500 staff working in the New York headquarters.
- September 14, 1948;, 75 years ago
- Modern architecture
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4 days ago · The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. At 1,046 ft (319 m), it is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel framework, and it was the world's tallest building for 11 months after its completion in 1930.
- 1,196,958 sq ft (111,201.0 m²)
- 77
5 days ago · The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it has served as the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800 when the national capital was moved from Philadelphia. [2]
4 days ago · Burj Khalifa, mixed-use skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that is the world’s tallest building, according to all three of the main criteria by which such buildings are judged. It was formally opened on January 4, 2010, and includes a public observation deck, called ‘At the Top,’ located on the 124th floor.
